Blogging playwrights pile on
Posted by: Glover |Brouhaha of the week: Blogging playwrights pile on
Oh, how sharper than a serpent's tooth is a playwright incensed over varying gradations of privilege! Some seriously tart exchanges on ye olde Internet this week were touched off by this, Mat Smart's HowlRound post, in which the playwright brought the tough love to his fellow emerging playwrights. Smart challenged what he sees as the defeatism of emerging playwrights, asserting that: "In the end, our approach to our own work is the only thing we can control—and I believe that you have to love the doing. You also have to love the chase, love the absence of any resemblance of fairness, justice, or due course. And as long as it doesn’t make you too desperate or crazy—there is a nobility in this endurance, in this brand of foolishness. There must be a sense that 'I am going down with the ship.' And frankly, it is a commitment that I don’t see many emerging playwrights make."
This comes in the middle of a long essay on playwright laziness, which, despite its inflammatory wording, is written from the perspective of someone who wants to hammer home the importance of a work ethic. It should be a familiar refrain—we've heard it from every other writer who has ever told us ass-in-chair time is the secret to success.
Kill your facebook account
Posted by: Glover |Facebook is pretty inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. It has wormed it's little coding into our collective unconsciousness and made us feel that we are doing something proactive to be less lonely, miserable, depressed and isolated than we really are. Facebook is a digital simulation; mimesis of the Hyper-Real, faux communication which passes as "friendship," there is no "real" reason to maintain any presence on Facebook or any other digital social network. So I suppose I can't really give you any reason not to delete your account. It has certainly crossed my mind on a regular basis over the last few years. On the other hand you could jump in the car and come over to NYC where we could hang out and have a few "real" experiences which we can then promote on Facebook. Proving to others that we have "real" friends in the "real world."
Grant money allows arts to thrive in the county
Posted by: Glover |Grant money allows arts to thrive in the county
Written byEmily Kratzer
A 24-hour playwriting and performance event at Elmwood Playhouse, plus cutting-edge dance and art exhibits, will be offered to the public because of funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Regrant Program.
The Arts Council of Rockland announced that 18 organizations and two individuals have received a total of $25,424 in Community Arts grants. The Rockland council administers the grants locally. During 2010, 30 organizations and six individuals applied for the 2011 grants.
McDonald’s Happy Meal resists decomposition for six months By Brett Michael Dykes
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Communicating your transmedia experience
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This is a quick post but I thought this template might be useful for some people when they’re explaining their transmedia project. You’ll notice that this is focused on the experience rather than the technology: there’s no mention of platforms or business case or even audience. So there’s more that needs to be communicated to get the full picture but this is a cool way to get your point across in certain circumstances.
This is my Transmedia Radar Diagram – use it to communicate your transmedia experience to interested parties… but probably not your audience 
Note that there’s no absolute scale for the four axes, it’s their strength relative to each other. Of course, if you’re comparing projects then they need to compare across projects too.